Director of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, 1996 - 2018. Rita is largely responsible for initiating and overseeing the growth, modernisation, increased engagement and impact that the Society now enjoys and received her CBE for ‘Services to Geography’ in 2003.

SIR SIMON WESSELY

President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, 2014 - 2017. He is also professor of psychological medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and Director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research.

Knighted in 2013 for services to military healthcare and to psychological medicine, he is known for his research in to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and contributed to research in to Gulf War Syndrome.

My painting captures Simon simultaneously posing and chatting with me whilst continuing to communicate with others on both an iPad and an iPhone. Sittings were conducted in the College library in a typically relaxed fashion.

Sir David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor University of Nottingham 2008 - 2017

Chuck Feeney, Atlantic Philanthropies for Rhodes House, Oxford

JIM LLOYD-BUTLER, Ventura, USA

This portrait of Jim was completed as a result of three trips to the Lloyd-Butler ranch in Ventura, Southern California over the first half of 2017. During the time spent there, I was privileged to get to know, and represent, the family through the medium of a portrait.

The photograph placed in the foreground is of Cynthia, Jim's late wife, taken whilst en route to Japan on a troop ship in the 1950's where she taught English. The walking cane Jim is holding belonged to Cynthia and makes a strong physical statement within the painting both composition wise and also emotively. Combined with the background, the painting very much becomes a family portrait rather than Jim on his own.

PROFESSOR JULIA BLACK, London School of Economics, UK

It was a privilege and pleasure to paint this portrait for the London School of Economics as Julia has had huge impact as an academic and proved herself to be a greatly influential leader at the School, standing in as their Interim Director.